Saturday, 6 October 2012

City of the soul


Jakarta Cityscape
"We do not look in our great cities for our best morality" - Jane Austen
photo courtesy: http://jakartalives.files.wordpress.com
Jakarta Slum
"For the first time the urban population of the earth will outnumber the rural. Indeed, given the imprecisions of Third World censuses, this epochal transition may already have occurred" - Planet of Slum, Mike Davis.

photo courtesy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Jakarta_slumhome_2.jpg
The Jakarta City Gap
 " Earth provides enough to satisfy every man’s need, but not every man’s greed" - Mahatma Gandhi
photo courtesy: http://imo.thejakartapost.com/hendrapage/2010/11/06/letter-to-the-editor-on-jakartans-responsibility/

Jakarta Black and white
 "On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity" - Adam Smith










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